We’re looking forward to celebrating the launch of the new edition of ‘The Dynamic Landscape’ with Professor Nigel Dunnett, Professor James Hitchmough and Dr Helen Hoyle next week! If you would like to join us, please follow the link to book your tickets: bit.ly/4h0T41F @sheffielduni.bsky.social

Just one week to go until Water Wizardry! 💧 Join us next Wednesday at Manor Fields Park from 10am–2pm for fun and educational activities for the whole family. Please visit the event page for more info and to book your tickets: bit.ly/3VWQ90l @ypip.bsky.social

We’re looking forward to hosting the ‘Day One’ Climate Exhibition at Sheffield Manor Lodge next month! Tickets are now available for the Launch Event, which takes place on Thursday 23 October (4pm–6pm). You can book online here: bit.ly/3KdZpuB greenestate.org.uk/sheffield-ma...

Due to an internal promotion, we have an opportunity to join a passionate team of Landscape Managers in delivering transformative projects with adaptation and resilience at their heart. Please follow the link for more information about the role and how to apply: bit.ly/46BBug5

We’re looking for a skilled horticulturist with hands-on experience of commercial production cycles to help lead a team and deliver top-quality products onsite. Please follow the link for more information about the role and how to apply: bit.ly/423Y4fM

We’re happy to announce that our beautiful Manor Oaks House venue is now available to hire for parties over the festive season! 🎄 Please email [email protected] to find out more and book your spot 🎉

Did you know you can help support our work every time you shop online? Sign up to @easyfundraising.bsky.social and when you shop online with your favourite retailers, they’ll donate to us. You can sign up via this link: bit.ly/42l8kjJ Thank you 💚

Deadline extended to Tuesday 2 September!

The Green Estate / Pictorial Meadows team doing some maintenance work on Grey to Green in Sheffield a few weeks ago 🌿 Leaving the ‘good’ weeds and managing the ‘bad’ ones; keeping the balance for beautify and biodiversity with knowledge and efficiency 💚 @visitsheffield.bsky.social

We’re happy to announce that The Green Estate has been shortlisted for the Leading through Innovation Award at the 2025 Sheffield Business Awards! Read more here: bit.ly/45eB0M7

We’re looking for up to 10 local people to help tell the story of Manor Castle Ward and imagine what it could become. Apply online here: bit.ly/4fc8q2k or head to www.greenestate.org.uk/communities/our-shared-story for more information 🙂 @ypip.bsky.social

We’re extremely happy to announce that Manor Fields Park has received its eleventh #GreenFlagAward, which is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces 💚🎉 Read more here: bit.ly/3Uate0u

More good news! We’re delighted to see that The Green Estate has been featured in this year’s NatWest SE100 Top 100 List, which recognises the UK’s top 100 social enterprises: bit.ly/3IlvAaq @pioneerspost.bsky.social ‪‪‪@ypip.bsky.social‬

Looking for a networking event where you can connect with like-minded people and explore opportunities for collaboration? Join us on Tuesday 15 July for a brand-new business networking lunch at our beautiful Manor Oaks House venue. Find out more here: bit.ly/40MnOfU @ypip.bsky.social

We’re happy to announce that The Green Estate has been selected as a finalist in this year’s NatWest SE100 Social Business Awards! Find out more on our website here: bit.ly/4kuRe9A @ypip.bsky.social

Just 9 days to go until Marvellous Meadows! 😃 This special one-day-only event, held in honour of National Meadows Day, offers a rare chance to step behind the scenes of The Green Estate and enjoy exclusive access across our entire Manor Lane site 💚 @visitsheffield.bsky.social

We are seeking an exceptional individual to take on a truly unique leadership role at the cutting edge of nature-based urban transformation. For more information about the role and how to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/469sJLq

16 days to go until Marvellous Meadows! 🌼 Come along to The Green Estate on Sunday 6 July for an inspiring day out that’s bursting with colour, fun and community spirit! 🙌 Please follow the link for more information and to book your tickets: bit.ly/4dSUnOQ @visitsheffield.bsky.social

(1/2) Last week, Sheffield Foyer celebrated the opening of its new outdoor space created by staff from The Green Estate CIC and funded in part by Brett’s Memorial Fund. Sheffield Foyer provides accommodation, training and support for young people who have been affected by homelessness.

The countdown is on to Marvellous Meadows! 🌼 If you’re looking for an inspiring day out that celebrates nature, community and discovery, then be sure to join us on Sunday 6 July as we open our entire site to the public 🙌 More info here: bit.ly/4dSUnOQ @visitsheffield.bsky.social

The Green Estate CIC in collaboration with Chef’s Counter presents Plates & Purpose, starting next month! 🍽 Join us at Manor Oaks House on Tuesday 15 July for a delightful two-course lunch designed for business networking 🤝 Please follow the link to book your tickets: bit.ly/3SNf8la

Our Horticulture Innovation Manager, Owen, had a great time showing Natural England around the city centre on their recent visit to Sheffield. They explored the many projects that feature our specialist SuDS soils, as well as the planting along Grey to Green (which is maintained by our team!)

Our team were out at Grey to Green in Sheffield last week adding new plants to areas that had been dug up during works over the past few years. Great work Owen, Sophie and Craig! 🌿

We’re incredibly excited to announce the return of Marvellous Meadows on Sunday 6 July! This is the one event of the year where we open up our entire site to the public. We’ll share more info over the coming weeks, but for now, please save the date and spread the word! @visitsheffield.bsky.social

"Retrofit is an essential component of decarbonisation – and if done properly, offers huge opportunities to build community wealth" Yesterday at the @thegreenestate.bsky.social, we learnt all about creating resilient places through the built and natural environment with SY Ecofit. #FofD

We had a great time hosting the ‘Creating Resilient Places’ @festofdebate.bsky.social event today! Some really interesting and insightful presentations from Jonathan Hind, Roger Nowell and Owen Hayman on climate-resilient retrofitting, sustainable flood resilience and the Grey to Green scheme.

Some excellent drone footage of Sheffield Manor Lodge courtesy of Dumitru Vlad. This was filmed during our very successful ‘Medieval Mayhem’ event which took place earlier this month ⚔

(1/3) We’re pleased to announce that the restoration work on the Apothecary Garden at Sheffield Manor Lodge has now been completed! Funded by #TescoStrongerStarts, the restoration project has significantly improved the Apothecary Garden, which had started to fall into disrepair over recent years.

Some recent pics of the Friday volunteer group working on The Green Estate’s new Community Forest Garden 🌱 You can find out more about the project here: bit.ly/3YTf4nj

We’re looking forward to hosting the below @festofdebate.bsky.social event at Manor Oaks House with SY Ecofit on Thursday 15 May! Tickets are sold out on the Festival of Debate website, but please email [email protected] to be added to our VIP list. festivalofdebate.com/2025/creatin...

(1/2) We’re delighted to see that photographs of the Grey to Green scheme in Sheffield have been featured as part of the Earth Stories exhibition at King’s Cross 💚

We’re looking for an Events Coordinator to join our Hospitality Team! For more information about the role and how to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/4jcHyAH @rozdavies.bsky.social

The volunteer group were busy in the Sheffield Manor Lodge Apothecary Garden yesterday finishing the final bit of revamp funded by the #TescoStrongerStarts scheme 🙌 They were doing a lot of weeding and clearing space for more diverse and interesting planting 🌿

Very grateful to @rozdavies.bsky.social & colleagues @thegreenestate.bsky.social & Pictorial Meadows for hosting my visit with #AHPs in the NE & Yorkshire today A fitting & inspirational venue for particular focus on #sustainability & #socialjustice from our strategy #AHPsDeliver

We’re delighted to announce that The Green Estate was named Green Space Vitality and Accessibility Champion at the #MoveMoreAwards last Friday! 🎉 We received this award for our dedication to transforming Sheffield’s green spaces into accessible spaces that encourage physical activity and wellbeing 💚

Some of The Green Estate staff out planting trees supplied by Oliver Coppard’s Million Trees campaign on Woodthorpe Ravine this morning 🌳☀ @southyorksmca.bsky.social

We’ve been enjoying the lovely weather at The Green Estate this week! We’ve got a number of public events taking place onsite over the first few weeks of spring, including our second Wedding Open Day of the year, Easter Holiday Activities at Manor Lodge, and our first Monday Night talk of the year.

(1/2) To celebrate World Recycling Day, we wanted to give a shout-out to our brilliant Green Waste Team 🌿♻💚 The Green Waste Team manage our Green Waste Recycling Facility, which is an innovative and regenerative service that turns green waste into peat-free compost and specialist soils.

We’re looking for an Executive Support Manager to provide high-quality and proactive administrative, legal and governance support to the CEO at The Green Estate CIC. For more information about the role and how to apply, please visit our website: bit.ly/4iRf0Mo

Looking beautiful at @thegreenestate.bsky.social Manor Fields Park this weekend. 💚☀️🦆 #SignsOfSpring

Brilliant to see The Green Estate, Pictorial Meadows and Grey to Green featured in @visitsheffield.bsky.social’s new ‘Sheffield Inspires’ global marketing campaign. We’re part of the ‘Greener Cities’ section, which you can read here: www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/inspires/greener-cities

Happy #WorldBookDay! Our Preloved Bookshop opposite The Rhubarb Shed Café has something for everyone 📚 Let us know in the comments if you have an all-time favourite book 😃

A brilliant fully-funded studentship opportunity focusing on the harmonisation of biodiversity and retrofit goals in homes and neighbourhoods: bit.ly/43oh0Hq @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

Our Landscape Team have been doing some maintenance work on the #GreytoGreen planting near Park Square Roundabout recently 🌿 Here’s Ousmany showing us how much you can pick up in one go with a pitchfork 💪 @visitsheffield.bsky.social

We’re happy to announce that The Green Estate’s 2024 Annual Report is now available to view here: bit.ly/3Dozddk The 2024 Annual Report gives a summary of what we got up to last year and where we are heading next. We look forward to doing our bit to make the world a better place in 2025! 💚

What a week for a #Green #SocialEnterprise from #Sheffield We picked up the prestigious ‘Winner of Winners’ national business of the year from the British Chambers of Commerce! Thank you to Sheffield Chambers for nominating us. From a 2 person environmental project to the ‘Winner of Winners’. 💪💚

Exciting week ahead for us as we head down to London to pick up the British Chambers national #GreenInnovation Business of the year award! 💚

We are a social enterprise dedicated to growing green and resilient urban places for people and nature to thrive! 💚 Our website is www.greenestate.org.uk